St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church

OUR PASTOR

Rev. G. W. Lewis, last of nine children, was born to the late Rev. J. R. Lewis and late Alma Lewis in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Rev. Lewis was educated in the public school system; talented athlete lettered in football and baseball and graduated from Capitol Senior High School in Baton Rouge, La.. Baptized at an early age by his father at the Rock Zion Baptist Church where he sang in the choir, served on the Usher Board and the Deacon Board. He received his call to preach the gospel at the young age of nineteen, and was a member of several ministerial organizations. Rev. Lewis attended the Inter-Baptist Theological Center in Baton Rouge, where he earned a Bachelors of Religious Education, Bachelor of Theology, and Master of Theology. He is a gifted teacher and preacher and evangelist. After receiving his Bachelor's degree in Theology, he was asked to serve as an instructor of the Old and New Testaments and Biblical background studies at the Inter-Baptist Theology Center. He is the former pastor of Union Baptist Church in Clinton, La., where he introduced the church and the community to several different ministries, which was new to the area. There after he moved to Beaumont in 1990 and joined with Sunlight Missionary Baptist Church under the leadership of the late Rev. Dr. G. W. Daniels. In 1995, he was called to Pastor the St. Luke Missionary Baptist Church where he is in his eighteenth year. He is an active leader in the Brickyard Neighborhood Association, an association that joins the community, city, county, and state leaders to obtain assistance for the citizens, for the betterment and growth of their neighborhood, assistance for the under privileged and the elderly. He participates in quarterly neighborhood cleanups, and attends meetings as a liaison for the association.

Rev. Lewis has been married for 26 years to Mrs. Judith M. Collins Lewis. They have five children and nine grandchildren.